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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780441002078 Edition: Ace original ed ISBN: 0441002072 Label: Ace Hardcover Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: July 01, 1995 Publisher: Ace Hardcover Studio: Ace Hardcover Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: After World War II, magic began leaking back into the world. By 1990, Dante Ratkay's father, a physician, gives charms to his patients as well as prescriptions, and cops investigate crimes with the help of angels, people who are possessed and changed by magical ability. An angel stirs within reluctant Dante, and his sly, rivalrous adopted brother Jet shows Dante his own corpse, called into being by Dante's magic. Magic always has meaning, but what does Dante's corpse signify? What magic marked Jet as an infant, stalking him through life? This brilliant novel about magic, family ties, and identity has the answers, but they aren't easy. Product Description: Hiding his psychic powers from a paranoid society, Dante Ratkay is forced to act upon a premonition about his own death and delves into his family's forbidden secrets in order to unleash a profound force deep within himself. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This one wasn't for me...I'm a Sean Stewart fan and give Mockingbird and Perfect Circle five stars. I just couldn't get into this one as much. It felt very small and very dark and I never got my mind around this strange world that Stewart created. I didn't hate it, but I just never felt good about reading this book. Definitely not the best of his books to start with! Rating:  - Original, or at least new to this reader. Refreshingly so.I can't predict if anyone else will feel the same way I did about this novel. I certainly liked it, and will read a dozen or so other books before tackling another one by the same author, just to let things sink in some more. I was drawn to the book by this quote of the author, from a LOCUST interview. Stewart here speaks of magic, but to me it is the magic of fiction to enchant, the magic of insight to enlighten, the ah ha! experience. If you like this quote, you may enjoy this book ... Read More Rating: - Very strange story and worldIt was Don Webb who first pointed me in Stewart's direction, but it took me quite a while before I finally picked up a novel of his. This of course was due to no active avoidance, but simply because I have way too many books to read as it is. Still, if I never got any recommendations, I would miss out on some amazing books, of which Resurrection Man is one of them. I like fantasy based in the real world--something magical hidden under the surface. When young, I remember being fascinated ... Read More Rating: - An intriguing blend of Dark and Urban fantasy genresStewart has created what is without a doubt one of the most cutting edge fantasy novels I have ever read. Brilliantly combining elements of dark fantasy which border on plunging this narrative into the category of a horror and urban fantasy elements which bring the events depicted almost too close to home, the result is a novel which will both make your hair stand on end and force you to think about its implications long after you read it. The narrative style is tightly woven and highly engaging to ... Read More Rating: - A Rewarding PuzzleThe first chapter of this book has to be one of the most incredible I've ever read anywhere. There's a lot that will shock and intrigue readers in this book, even with its modest number of pages; I thought the story was wonderfully packed and layered. The downside is that this is going to be a tougher book to read and understand than most sf/fantasy/urban fantasy books--Sean Stewart has got a very different Earth here, and only reveals it piece by little piece. A lot is unexplained (this book ... Read More 
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